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APPLICATION FILED JULY l5, 1912.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1912.

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EUGENE VASHING-TON VEST, OF MULBER-RY GROVE, ILLENOIS, ASSIGNOB TO MAJESTIC MFG; CO., OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPQRATION OF MISSOURI.

RANGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Application filed. July 15, 1912. Serial No. 769,598.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, EUGENE WV. VEST, a citizen ol' the United States of America, and a resident of Mulberry Grove, in the county oi Bond and State of illinois, have invented certain new and uset'ul Improvements in Ranges, of which the following is a speciiication.

The present invention pertains to certain provisions for preheating and distributing air in ranges or cooking stoves to promote combustion, and it consists in the novel features and combinations of parts as set Jforth in the following description and succinctly dened in the annexed claims.

With reference to the accompanying drawings wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views: Figure 1 is -a vertical longitudinal section through a cooking range embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the range with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical section of the range on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, with the grate bars removed. Fig. 4 is a perspective of the same with the top and front end wall removed and portions of the rear end and back side Walls broken away. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary vertical section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a similar view on line 6 6 or" Fig. 1.

My invention consists essentially in providing a range or cooking stove with air conducting and delivering means of suitable design to direct air beneath the fuel zone for preheating and thence to the combustion zone.

In the present embodiment, the range 1 is provided with an air conducting passage or draft flue 2 beneath the tire box, which communicates with air distributing units in the form of chambered lining sections 5, 6, 6a and 7 7 provided with narrow outlet openings 5, 6', 6" and 7, 7 for directing air into the fire box over the grate 8.

The flue 2 is'provided in my range by the installation within the range, beneath the fire box, of a U-.shaped partition 20, which serves to form an ash compartment, the sections of said partition being spaced from a side wall of the range, the bottom of the range and a side wall of the oven nearest the fire box, as will presently more fully appear.

The U-shaped partition 20 includes a bottom section 21 above that portion of the `bottom of the range which is located beneath the ire box; also side sections 22 and 23, and an end section 21, the latter extending upwardly from the bottom section 21, parallel with the rear wall of the range, and being provided with flanges 21 and 24 which are secured, respectively, to a side wall oi' the range and the side wall of the oven. The side section 22 of the U-shaped partition 2O extends upwardly from the bottom section 21 and 'forwardly :from the end section 21 to the front wall o1 the range, this side section being provided at its upper' end with an angular flange 22 which is secured to the adjacent side wall of the range over the air inlet controlled by the damper 9 and serves to hold said section parallel with and spaced from said side wall. The side section 23 of the U-shaped partition 20 includes an angular flange 23, similar to the flange 22 of the section 22, whichis secured to the side wall of the oven nearest the fire box. The side section 23 is also provided with an angular vertical extension 23 which is secured to the side wall of the oven, and, in combination with the adjacent walls, serves to form a vertical flue 2.

The header 3 of my range is a substantially L-shaped hollow body comprising a stem having a neck 31 extending into the flue 2 and a short transverse arm, and isy supported by brackets 10 and 11 secured respectively to the side wall adjacent the lire box and the opposing side wall of the oven,

the header being preferably provided withV which communicates with the flue 2. TheV stem of the header 3 is provided with aV downwardly extending neck which lits in the iiue extension 2 and provides communication from said liue to the interior of the stem of the header.

The lining section 6, 6a and 7 are seated on the stem of the header 3 and have communication with the interior of this member in order that heated air may pass from va substantially U-shaped the stem of the header into said sections to escape therefrom through the narrow outlet openings 6, G and 7 to the tire box. The lining section 5 is seated on the trans verse arm of the header 3 and the heated air entering. said 'arm from the lue 2 through the neck 5 in the opening 3 passes into said lining section to be discharged through the narrow opening 5 into the fire boX.

25 and 26 are defiectors secured to the partition wallsv 22 and 23 by which ashes falling from the grate 8 are directed tothe ash pan 27.

11 is the floor of the oven.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America, is

1. Ak range Ahaving a bottom, a side wall provided with an air 4inlet opening, and an oven wall parallel with said side wall, a grate between said walls, a iire box lining adjacent to said grate, said rire boX lining being provided with an air flue open at the vbottom to receive air and open at the top to' discharge air over said grate, a partition substantially U-shaped in cross sect-ion arranged below said grate to 'form an ash compartment, said partition being arranged between said side wall and said oven wall, Vthe said partition being separated from said walls and the bottoni of the range to form passageway through which air may be conducted from said air inlet opening to the ue in said fire boX lining. l

2. A range having a bottom, a side wall provided with an air inlet opening, and an Voven wall parallel with said side wall, a grate between said oven wall and said side wall, a fire boX lining adjacent to said grate, said .fire boX lining being provided with an air flue having a discharge opening `through which air may be discharged over v,

said` grate, a partition substantially U- shaped in cross section arranged below said tom of said ash compartment before passingv to said fire box lining.

3. A range having a bottom, a front wallV 'provided with an air inlet opening, and an oven wall parallel with said side wall, a grate between said oven wall and side wall, fire box lining members adjacent to a side and end of said grate, said re boX lining members being provided with air iues -having discharge openings through which air may be discharged over saidgrate, a partition arranged below said gra-te to form anash compartment, said partition being open at its front end to receive an ash pan 'and open at the top to receive the 'ash dropping from said grate, the bottom, sideand rear walls or' said partition being closed and separated from the adjacent walls to provide passageways leading from said vinlet opening to the air iiues in the tire box lining members at the side and rear end of said grate, said passageways being formed around the closed bottom and closed rear end of said partition and also between the closed side wall of said partition and the said oven wall.

Signed at Mulberry Grove Ill. this 13 day of July 1912.

EUGENE WASHINGTON VEST.

wvi/Titnesses:

T. E. DAVIS, WV. A. Davis.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents eac11,by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

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